Yep, installing Ubuntu is exactly what I do. I'd imagine it's a bit harder for the Gentoo users, since it's easy to accidentally add a dependency on some DBus

Yep, installing Ubuntu is exactly what I do. I'd imagine it's a bit harder for the Gentoo users, since it's easy to accidentally add a dependency on some DBus daemon or something, and never notice if you don't ever use any lighter distros.